Mark Zuckerberg’s peculiar Facebook hire

It’s hard to get to worked up anymore about the umpteenth person passing through the revolving doors from government to industry. But we’ll try.

On Wednesday, Facebook CEO Mark Zuckerberg participated in a hackathon for immigration reform. What makes that a bit of a head-scratcher is that Facebook just hired Don Seymour as its political outreach manager in Washington, D.C. — maybe on the strength of his time running Facebook outreach for House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio.

No doubt Seymour will do a fine job for Facebook. But we’ve got one awkward question: Does Zuckerberg — the driving force behind fwd.us, which is pushing hard for immigration reform, have any problem hiring a former spokesman for Boehner, who is preventing the House from voting on an immigration reform package?

Awk-sauce?

We asked both Facebook and fwd.us the question and will post their response when/if we get them.

Here is Zuckerberg talking immigration reform while in San Francisco — as captured by SFGate.com/San Francisco Chronicle’s Shaky Hand Productions:

Regardless of what Zuckerberg feels about hiring Boehner’s ex-spokesman, we’re guessing Seymour might not be FB’s last hire from Capitol Hill. As Politico notes, Facebook loves hiring from top political operations. Among those who have made the transition, the site notes, are “ex-Bush aide Joel Kaplan, former Clinton press secretary Joe Lockhart, and former Obama aide Sarah Feinberg (the latter two have since left Facebook.) Political types still with Menlo Park include spokeswoman Jodi Seth (a former aide to John Kerry), lobbyist Myriah Jordan (a former aide to Sen. Richard Burr), and Greg Maurer (another Boehner staffer), among others.”